I have a 2865ax and a AP906 in a mesh setup at home. Since new both have been a nightmare irrespective of the firmware loaded. The 2865ax would reboot at least once or twice a day and the AP906 would also reboot or lose its mesh connection and then take 45 minutes to reconnect. After spending a lot of time over the last few months trying to resolve it, replacing firmware and replacement power supplies and the like. I was going to drag my 2860ac and AP903 out of the loft, then I saw the adverts for the AP905, so since it was reasonably priced I decided to purchase one.
I plugged it in straight out of the box. The mesh Discovery recognised it despite being configured for a different LAN. It updated the device as a node and synced it, all I did extra was to set a fixed IP address and give it a name. I then put it in the same location as the AP906 and turned off the AP906.
The result has been that the 2865ax has not rebooted since the AP905 was connected and neither has AP905. That is what I call a result. The AP905 interface is not that well developed as the AP906 and the 2865ax cannot drill down the connected clients from the devices view. Though on the plus side it works, is about the same size as the AP/902/903, you can fit high gain antennas to it and I am getting a lot better range on both bands than I was on the AP906.
